Fill Your Whole Grains Gap
Whole grains are everywhere—in breakfast cereals, breads, side dishes like grain and pasta dishes, soups, snacks, and baked goods. With such availability and the good news about their health benefits, you’d think we’d all be meeting our recommendation for three servings of whole grains a day. Sadly, we’re a long way off. “Consumers feel they are getting more whole grains than they [really] are,”...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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What’s Happening in Nutrition Research?
April 30, 2012
This has been a big spring conference year for me, I’ve just returned from not one but four nutrition meetings, starting with the Supermarket RD Symposium in Savannah in February, then on to Boston for the Annual...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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CSA Goods
This is my second week of my CSA--community supported agricutlure. For $25/week, I get my share of local, organic produce bounty grown locally and freshly harvested. I live 20 miles from downtown LA, yet there are so many farms nearby that can furnish freshly picked produce to the LA CSA. I simply signed up and authorized my credit card to be charged $25/week--I...
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Prevent Muscle Loss in Aging
We all want to live a healthy, vibrant life all the way through our golden years. In fact, 42% of Americans are expected to live until they are 90, according to a presentation by Marcia Stefanick, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Stanford Prevention Research Center at the Nutrition and Health Conference I attended in San Francisco last week. Unfortunately, muscle loss, also known...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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Whole Foods First, From Grains to Fruits
“Eat more whole, minimally processed foods.” That’s the advice you’ll get from most nutrition experts today. That’s because these foods—which come as close to their natural form as possible—are usually rich in all of the “good” stuff, such as fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, and low in all of the “bad” stuff, including saturated fat, trans fats, sodium,...
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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